Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some members of the staff have already volunteered. "There have been people that have shown an interest," Murphy said, declining to provide names or elaborate on the exact number...
...energy released is also no measure of its destructiveness. A small quake in the center of a city can kill 1,000 people for every life lost to a monster tremor in a thinly populated place--like the death toll if any (there doesn't seem to be an exact count) in New Madrid, Missouri, in 1811-12, when it was rocked by one of the most severe series of earthquakes ever to strike the U.S. The Kobe quake was only slightly bigger than the Northridge tremor but more disastrous in part because its full force appeared to hit densely...
Police declined to give out any details about the exact cause of death...
...most perfectly realized painting in this show has to be White Forms, circa 1955; the balance between the rushing black and the captured density of the static white seems exact, perfect and yet imperiled by the energy of movement. Such structures have a lot to do with the way New York City and industrial America generally were described by photography. When Walker Evans looked at the Brooklyn Bridge or Margaret Bourke-White at the Hoover Dam, they saw hieroglyphs of power; so, moving through Manhattan, did Kline. The graininess and stark contrast of Robert Frank's photos...
...Nobody's Fool" is successful because it is potent without relying on typical film conventions. There are no guns. Well, okay, two to be exact. There are no naked women. Okay, maybe for a split second. But, the point is that no one's life is on the line. Compared to many films where the world is sure to end, the stakes in "Nobody's Fool" are small. The worst that could happen is for Sully to go on relinquishing responsibility. What is the best that could happen? Probably that Sully starts to value the things he's taken...